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About The Sumpter miner. (Sumpter, Or.) 1899-1905 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 24, 1900)
12 THE SUMPTER MINER. Wednesday, October 24, 1900 Are You Progressive and Up-to-Date? Do ynu want a stamp mill that has a capacity nf 8 to 12 tons to each stamp? One that no maker of stamp mills In the United States can sell ynu, but ourselves? One that Is better In every way than the kind they can sell you. THE MERRALLS' RAPID STAMP MILL has an enormous capacity. We are selling these mills everywhere. We In stall complete plants, from K to 1000 tons capacity. If you are think lug of puttiiiK up a stamp mill, don't do It, until ynu have written us. We can save you thousand of dollars, besides worry and vexation. These mills are endorsed by mining men everywhere. Send for circular. Merralls' Mill Company 129 First Street San Francisco, Cal. The.... Shamrock A. M. CAkMATHY, Proprltor S. Cl.KIN, Manager FINE Wines, Liquors, Beer and Cigars. Free Lunch with all drinks. Beer Five Cents Per Glass. Five Bot tles of Schlitz Beer for One Dollar. w. s. ABSTRACTS Real Estate, Loans and Insurance. Mining Patents Obtained Years of experience in Bnker County Records. No. 2104 Court Street, Baker City; Oregon. II IwfTOVUCWHW" I STAMP MILLS WOOD OR IRON FRAME SELF-CONTAINED MILLS Rock Crushers Ore Feeders Tramways Dredges, Engines Boilers and Waterwheels Hammond Mfg. Co. INCORPORATED PORTLAND, OREGON 00000000000000 Exclusive Agent for the Celebrated OLYMPIA BEER On draught or by bottle. 00000000000000 "The Olympus tt H. FINGFR, Proprietor. High Grade Wines, Liquors and Cigars. Sumpter, Or. SUMPTER BOTTLING WORKS Manufacturers ol all klnjt nt Carbonated Drinks an J CMer. Opratt J In lonncctlon with the Kentucky Liquor Hou WHOLESALE AND RETAIL. GAGEN A. SLOAN, PROPS., SUMPTER, ORE. PORT-AND "HANDED A HOT ONE" Home Paper Sayi It Doesn't Know a Good Thing When It Sees It. To establish a Stock Exchange and en list the interest of I'orll md N Mich an un dertaking Is no easy task. In the first place people do not know anything about such thing;.. Dealing In stocks uf any kind is an almost unknown quantity with them, and to gel In the way of it, or "in the swim," as some would term It, is as hard as to make water run up hill. And yet we suppose it is so In all businesses. You must be educated to It and learn how, 'just as the diygoods man must learn the quality of his fabrics, just as the lawyer must understand the technicalities of the law, just as the carpenter must be able to 1 mark out with a line and a rule. In this place I do not know that It Is any worse than any others, but Ihey do say ' Portland people are the slowest people to ' "catch on" to anything. I hey are some thing like the rat that smells the cheese, , but Is wary ol the entrance to the trap. Perhaps the simile Is an uutortunate one, but the application seems to tit. How ever, it will serve our purpose in this case, and we will let it stand. What we want Portland has grown amidst the greatest discouragements. How much more it would have grown if stout hearts and will lug hands had come to the front. Our 1 oldest inhabitants came here some years ago and squatted. I hey have let the town grow up all around them through the energy of outsiders and in spite of of them, until now you cannot move them with dynamite. If you were to blow them up ihey would drop back again In the same old rut, and pull the moss over them again. We suppose we must wait until we have a few more first-class funerals. It is said that a certain comer was covered with a row of one story moss covered ! build! descendant the spot. Other vases could br cited but one is enough. Enterprise is left to a few H. P. O. E.'s, and after the procession has gone by (he town lapses into its former stale ol somnolency. Portland Alining Review. Eastern Oregon Better Than Alaska. Will Shaw, formerly of Butte, Montana, now a prominent attorney of Wallace, Idaho, was in the city yesterday accom panied by his sister, Mrs. Minnie G. Stevens. They departed last evening for a visit with their parents at Cove. Mr. Shaw, who recently returned from Nome, believes the Arctic camp Is a good place to stay away from. "The gold fields of eastern Oregon and Idaho," said Mr. Shaw to a Republican reporter, "hold out more alluring inducements by far than any part of Alaska. Baker county, now as suming a recognized place in the list of big mining camps, and the Couer d'Alene ngs.but the owner died and his I country,. with its monthly payroll of a. iidants are erecting a line building on 'round lnillio" d""" are Kter camps, I irom every stauupuiui, man any ;eiiiuii ui the Ice bound Arctic territory so far dlscov-1 ered. This Is my tirst visit to Raker county since my boyhood days, when I held a chain on a government survey up ' near the Sumpter camp. The changes 1 since that time, the increase in resident population, and the mining development hive been actually marvelous. Republican. Bend on the Monumental. Rouutree & Diamond, of this citv, have Sanger Mine Bonded for $100,0)0. Tl report was circulated in this city , yesterday Irom a source deemed reliable: that a sale of the Sanger mine, at Sanger, ' to get at Is that the Portland people don't Union county, had taken place to Walla 1 kuuw a good thing when they see it. Walla and eastern capitalists for a price Everybody acknowledges there is an named at 100,000. EvSherlft Frank ' secured a bond on the Monumental mine, abundance of minerals, gold, silver, cop- Phy, of Union, is said to have been the, near Granite, Oregon, and Mr. Diamond per, coal and such like located in the hills promoter of the deal and a son of evGov- is now at the property. This is the oldest 'ar by. lernor Miles C. Moore, of Washington, ! producing mine in the district; has shipped i: very body believes, liu' hiding the Chain-1 one ot the purchasers, the Singer mine over a quarter of a million dollars of gold was the property of the Bradley estate of and silver, and has a complete equipment Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and was operated of machinery, Including a lostamp mill, until the death of Mr. C. r. Bradley, by ' costing some Jo,ooo. The Monumental the Bradley Mining company erty has been idle for a number and pending a settlement of the estate was with the great cost of hauling concentrates off the market. A io-stamp mill is on the to and supplies from Baker City, but the property. With the mine cleared ol wa-Mmpnvements in processes of reduction O. S. L Ry. THI DJRECT HOUTE TO Montana, Utah Colorado and all Eastern Points... Ulveich.lce or two ravonte routes, via the Union pACinc Fast Mall Line, or the K10 Grande S.enlc Lines. ' No Change of Cars ?n..,h I'oftland-Chlcaro Splal.'"The Finest Ik the West. EqulppeJ with Elegant Standard Sleepers d Fine New Ordinary (Tourist) Sleepers Superb Library-Buffet Cars Splendid Diners (meals a la carte) Free Recliniu Chair Cars Comfortable Coaches and Smokers Entire Train Completely Vestibuled Tor further Ihlormatlon apply to J. R. NAGEL W. E. COMAN Trav. Pass. At. Gen'l Agent 142 Third St., Portland, Ore. ber of Commerce and Board of Trade, that we need a smeller plant and a ma chinery plant to bring this product to a successful development, and that It will greatly benefit our state and city. They are willing to resolve and cry aloud on paper of the importance of this to our com munity. But it you ask them to lend a hand financially or practically they turn It river to the other fellow, or give It the co'd x.iuicy, uy - costing some 900,000. 1 ne monumental The prop-J has not been operated for some years on rr ot years account of the low price of silver, together shoulder.lhe marble heart, the glass eye. I Democrat. ter it will require but little expenditure of money to put it on a working basis. and the decreased cost of handling their output and freight will make this a desir- I able property. Portland Mining Review. J 1 . THE . , . SUMPTER MEAT MARKET A. MANNS, Rroprietor. J Butcher and Packer Fresh and Cured Meats and Sausage of all Kinds SUMPTER, OREGON H I l A V "